I expect the process that started in 1989 to resume. There is no way around it. There is nothing this White House can do about it. This is where the appeasement is coming from though. And it could accidentally get us to a hot war because in Moscow that’s weakness.
Bulbe is a reflection of a corner of Russian thinking. It’s their own version of white replacement, because the empire has no racism whatsoever, insert sarcasm here. But it’s a corner that exists.
Conspiratorial, yup…but they are there.
And if this devolves into a civil war, the Russian Imperial Movement, and Eurasians will be a party to it.
I suspect Ramzan Kadyrov will declare independence and take over the northern Caucasus.